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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 23

Place Making

Whereas the intention of the North Terrace upgrade was to create a sense of place, Tim Lloyd, Advertiser, 1st Dec. 2001, page 54, claims that some of the significant heritage value of North Terrace will be lost in replacing lawn with paving, and mature European trees with young indigenous trees. Where is the balance between preserving heritage and creating a sense of place? How has the feed back from the public modified this proposal?

REFERENCES

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Lloyd, Tim. "Shady trees, grass just an illusion", Advertiser, 1st December 2001, page 54.

Petrys, Leisha. "$17m terrace design fails opinion test", Sunday Mail, 12th May 2002, page 15.

O'Brien, Susie. "$50,000 more to review North Terrace", Advertiser, 20th April 2002, page 5.

Books
Farbstein, Jay, Kantrowitz, Min. People in places: experiencing, using, and changing the built environment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ., Prentice-Hall, 1978.
Main Collection 155.91 F219p

Gehl, Jan and Soholt, Helle. Public spaces and public life. Adelaide, Planning SA, 2002.

Mehrabian, Albert. Public places and private spaces: the psychology of work, play, and living environments. New York, Basic Books, 1976.
Main Collection 155.9 M498p

Place and placemaking: proceedings of the PAPER 85 Conference. Melbourne, Association of People and Physical Environment Research, 1985.
Main Collection 720.103 P214p

Articles
Frampton, Kenneth. "Universalism and or Regionalism: untimely reflections on the future of the new", Domus, no.782, May 1996, pages 4-8.

Feldman, Roberta M. "Settlement-Identity: Psychological Bonds with Home Places in a Mobile Society", Environment and Behaviour, vol.22, no.2, March 1990, pages 183-229.

Hakim, Besim S. "Elements of Architecture: from form to place", Journal of Architectural Education, vol.47, no.3, pages 182-183.

"Our public spaces undervalued: North Tce designer", City Messenger, 27th June 2001, page 6.

O'Brien, Susie. "$4m less to spruce up North Terrace", Advertiser, 22nd April 2002, page 14.

Rowe, Elizabeth. "Councillors agree on what the City lacks: Open spaces but not enough public places", City Messenger, 27th June 2001, page 7.

Tzonis, Alexander and Lefaivre, Liane. "Why Critical Regionalism Today?", Architecture and Urbanism, no.5(236), May 1990, pages 23-33.

"Terrace upgrade facing $4m cut", Sunday Mail, 2nd June 2002, page 20.

Web sites
North Terrace Redevelopment Project
Includes Project Documents, among them the North Terrace Masterplan Summary, November 2002; North Terrace Precincts Development Framework Summary, and Stakeholder Consultation Issues Papers.

Adelaide City Council

RAIA Project Gallery. Urban design - Park, 0pen space.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682"
'Places', in "Urban design: the creation of livable cities", vol.5, pages 181-183. "Role of the architect", vol.4, pages 279-300. "Theory of architecture", vol.4, pages 84-110.

Ching, F. D. K. Visual dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Reference collection 720.3 C539v
Instead of an alphabetical listing, the information is clustered around basic aspects of architecture with words placed in their visual context. Included are fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history and technology.

Fleming, J. Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. 5th ed. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1998.
Reference collection 720.3 F597p
Landscape architecture", pages 328-330. "Urban design", pages 595-596.

The following handbooks present guidelines for architectural design over a range of activities, building types, and environments. These follow European or North American precedents, remember to check with Australian codes.

Architect's data.
(Neufert) 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell Science Publishers, 2000.
Reference collection 721.0212 N482a.3

Metric handbook: planning and design data. 2nd ed. Oxford, Architectural Press, 1999.
Reference collection 721.0212 N532.2

Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data. 2nd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Reference collection 712.0212 H313t.2

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The databases listed below include information on urban design, landscape architecture and a sense of place.

ARCH - indexes Australian architectural and design journals.   click here for search notes
APA-FT - indexes a range of Australian journals in the social sciences, full text of articles provided from 1995 for some 200 journals.   For search notes see ARCH
Australia/New Zealand reference centre- indexes articles and newspapers from Australia and New Zealand.      click here for search notes
BUILD - from the CSIRO, indexes journals, books and research reports on building and construction in Australia.   For search notes see ARCH
AHB; Australian heritage bibliography - from the Australian Heritage Commission, indexing articles on heritage issues in the natural and built environments.   For search notes see ARCH
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GEOBASE - an international index of articles, books and research reports on urban geography. For search techniques see ARCH
LexisNexis - a huge international database; includes full text Australian newspapers.      click here for search notes
PsycInfo - includes environmental psychology.   For search notes see ARCH

This is only a small selection of possible databases, if you don't find what you need here, please come and see me, Kay Leverett, Architecture Librarian, or contact me by phone (8303 4659) or email: kay.leverett@adelaide.edu.au